Housing project gets $1.7 million

Paxton Senior Housing has received $1.7 million as a part of a $105 million affordable housing and job creation plan in Massachusetts.

The developer JK Scanlan will use the $1.7 million in Department of Housing and Community Development housing subsidies as well as $1.2 million in state and federal low-income housing tax credits to create 50 units of affordable housing for elderly residents, with five units reserved for extremely low-income households. It is expected to create 69 jobs.

The project will be built on land off Grove Street that was left to the town by the late Arnold Klingele.

State Sens. Harriette L. Chandler and Stephen M. Brewer announced the funding.